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Kanye West

American rapper and record producer (born 1977)

  • Audience12.5M
  • Fame86.3
  • Momentum6.5
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12.5M youtube followers
  • Audience12.5M
  • Fame86.3
  • Momentum6.5
  • Global rank#172
  • United States rank#52
  • Musicians rank#43
Born 1977 · age 49United States
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  • Biggest on YouTube
    12.5M
    @@kanyewest
  • Wikipedia
    94 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Global rank
    #172
    Fame.am leaderboard
  • Age
    49
    Born 1977
  • Known for
    Anchorman 2: The Legen…
    2013
Summary
Updated 2026-08-31

He bent hip-hop toward melody and confession when the genre still prized toughness, then spent two decades proving you could dominate the charts, rewrite the sound every album, and still make the headlines more volatile than the music.

Biography

About

Born in Atlanta and raised in Chicago, Kanye Omari West dropped out of college to produce beats, crafting the "chipmunk soul" sound that got him noticed at Jay-Z's Roc-A-Fella Records. He released The College Dropout in 2004 and Late Registration in 2005, the latter his first of eleven US Billboard 200 number-ones, and became the first rapper to top the Hot 100 across three decades with singles like "Gold Digger" and "Stronger". Six of his albums landed on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list, and he won 24 Grammys while selling 160 million records. He married Kim Kardashian…

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In their own words

Sourced, dated quotes from Kanye West

Kanye West
said
Jay's favorite line: 'Dawg, in due time!'Now he look at me, like, 'Damn, dawg! You where I am!' A hip hop legend I think I died in that accident, 'cause this must be heaven.
— Touch the Sky
Kanye West
said
It seems, we living the American dream But people highest up got the lowest self esteem. The prettiest people do the ugliest things For the road to riches and diamond rings.
— All Falls Down
Kanye West
said
We'll buy a lot of clothes, but we don't really need 'em Things we buy to cover up what's inside Cause they made us hate ourself and love their wealth.
— All Falls Down
Kanye West
said
My flow is in the pocket like Wallace, I got the bounce like hydraulics, I can't call it, I got the swerve like alcoholics.
— Get Em High
Kanye West
said
Always said if I rapped, I'd say somethin' significant But now I'm rapping 'bout money, hoes, and rims again.
— Breathe In Breathe Out
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
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Deep cuts

Albums

Low confidence
  • BULLY (by Chropic)
    2026
  • Cuck
    2025
  • BULLY
    2025
  • Cruel Winter
    2023
  • ¥
    2023
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Net worth

Low confidence
$400.0Mestimated · 2026
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Score breakdown

The six component signals behind the Fame score, and their ranks across the leaderboards.

Fame
Stable
86.3
Composite of search demand, mentions, audience & graph footprint.
Score components
Momentum6.5
Historical45.5
Now attention9.7
Source confidence100.0
Completeness90.0
Global rank
#172
Country rank
#52
Category rank
#43
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Sources

  • Wikipedia
    wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
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  • Wikidata
    wikidata · wikidata.org
    High confidence
  • Pantheon 2.0
    database · pantheon.world
    High confidence